The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two Boston gentlemen, VINO nave just returneu
from a trip to the Sandwich Islands, report that
they were very handsomely entertained by the
| King who plays very good game of poker.
LIGHTNING struck a tree near Nevin, Ind the
| other day Near the tree was large pond.
| Soon after the tree was struck the water III the
| pond began sinking and in few days the pond
was perfectly dry.
KRuPP's new rapid firing gun consists of a
| tube resembling that of a steel fleld-gun, pro-
| jecting from the portfolio of an ironclad; its
| carriage being reversible, and having seat for
| the gunner at its rear.
A NEPHEW oeCardinal Manning has been vic
timizing society people in San Francisco. He
| was a perfect gentleman and borrowed jew
| elry-watches and diamond rings-from the
| young ladies, which he forgot to return.
MANS queer inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn; my end is for
| peace" This poetic paraphrase John Marks
Poole London printer, wrote on q slip OF pa
per as his reason for committing suicide. He
cut the blood vessels in his arm with a pair of
| scissors and bled slowly to death.
Boston rejoices in the application of steam
power to boot polishing. In a shop located in
the midst of the disciples of Blackstone has
been fitted up an engine with complex ar
rangement of straps by which brushes are
whirled at a surprising rate. The customers are
seated on a broad bench and are polished of IN
a very short time,
AFTER last years city government of Lewis
ton, Me-, was organized, one of the Councilman
gave a dinner. Mayor Cowan occupied the
head of one of the tables, and, running his eye
down either side, he said: Gentlemen, if was
disposed to be superstitious, l should refrain
from sitting at this table-there are thirteen of
us here" Just about one year later all the 9TH
erS who attended the dinner attended the funeral
of Mayor Cowan.
To- rINx bod IN mill Mt
Lowell, Mass, deposited $40 in a savings bank.
At various times between that year and 1852 she
added to the deposit until it amounted to 1888.
In 1875 the principal with dividends earned
amounted to 81 ,406. She has since drawn out
800, and the whole amount to her credit In 1884
was 81 or. She has since allowed $1,000 to re
man on interest and her income is $40 year
She is now about so years old
A ST. PAUL MAN has a pet dog of which he is
very proud One evening recently, when the
gentleman was returning home, he saw the dog
emerge from the shadow of neighbours fence
with hen in his mouth. The dog deposited the
fowl in a secluded spot and then went after the
house cat, which it seized by the neck and
dragged to the feast. Without going through
the formality of asking grace the dog tore the
chicken to pieces and helped the cat to some of
the choicest scraps
YOUNG MAN of Carbonate, OAK, thought
that he'd be smart and so began correspoE-
dence with a foolish young woman in the East
whom he had never seen. She wanted his
photograph, and he sent her that of hotel
keeper of the place. She was so pleased with 1t
that she agreed to go to Dakota and marry 4her
correspondent. She started alone and arrived
at Carbonate the other day but the young man
had fled. The paper that reports the occur
renee says: THE situation is very embarrass-
ing for the lady The hotel man would marry
her were he not engaged to another girl"
AN Indiana farmer, who told his boys to burn
| every humble bees nest they found on the
farm, and who was complaining at the failure
| of his clover seed crop, was surprised when
| Maurice Thompson. the naturalist said. THAT
| is why your clover seed fails you. Bundle bees
| make your clover seed" II is fact that a
| strong nest of humble bees in big clover field
is worth $50 to the owner; for these insects are
| the chief agents in fertilizing the blossoms,
tralia there are no humble bees of our kind, and
they could not raise clover seed there until they
| imported some.
A TRAVELLING sIeight-of-hand man visited an
Indian encampment, near Lewiston, Idaho, the
other day. Seeing small dog, he asked how
| much they would take for him. The Indians
| said that they didn't want to sell. Him very
| good dog" said the magician, rubbing him
down the back, at each stroke taking handful
of money from the end of his tail, also from his
| mouth, ears and nose The Indians looked on
| in stolid silence, but after the magician went
|
and killed and dissected him To their great
| chagrin they found that the sleght-o hand man
| had MIXED him of all the money.
| M. STRAKoscH, who has just published his ex-
perience as an impressario, tells us that Adelina
] Patti is genuine enfart de la bella. She came
| into the world on the stage at Madrid while
| her mother was singing in Norma" She APP
| peared in New York when she was only eight
years old, and was enormously successful. She
was at once christened 1.-THE little wonder" At
that time she satisfied with doll for her re-
muneration. She was reminded of this recently
| when she refused $500 for single nights per-
| Torrance. The highest sum ever paid her was
| 81, 900 per night at San francisco. Neither Jen-
ME Lind nor Grisi ever got more than EGO per
| night.
| URIAH RINKER, farmer near Tannersville,
| Pa, was cleaning his saddle horse on Friday
when the barn was struck by lightning and the
horse instantly killed. Rinker was knocked
senseless to the floor, and when he became con-
scious was surrounded by flames and all means
| of escape nearly cut off. BY a desperate effort
| he managed to catch hold of the door sill and
| drag himself from the burning building. Just
| as he crossed the sill his wife came, rushed to
| to his assistance and dragged him to place of
| safety. His clothing was then ablaze and the
| heat from the fire was so intense that Mrs.
Rinkers arms and hands were blistered The
| watch in his pocket was destroyed by the light
| ming, and three long gaShes were made in new
| boot on his foot.
! In obtaining the vast and rich domain of Bur-
nah the English government has come into pos
| session, among other natural treasures, of i'm
mense forests of teak, which, never very plen-
| tiful in India was becoming commercially quite
rare, and consequently of increased cost for in
| dustrial purposes. Of all the woods grown in
| the East this has been pronounced as in some
respects the most valuable. This superiority
| consists in its being neither too heavy nor too
| hard It does not warp nor split under exposure,
| no matter how prolonged, to heat or dampness
| it contains an essential oil which possesses the
rare property of preventing the wood from rot
| ting under wet conditions, and, at the same
! time, act as preservation to iron, and repels
| insects; il is, in addition, a handsome wood, of
several varieties of color and grain, and takes a
! good polish.
| CARDINAL MANNING is described by a recent
visitor as 'weirdly impressive at night" Wear
| ing his black cassock and scarlet cap, seated by
the blazing wood fire in his study, in which fifty
| couples might waltz with perfect comfort, his
emnence will discuss any subject from the de-
| crees of the Council of Trent down to a para
! graph in the society papers. No subject Is too
! large, no topic too small for him to converse
| upon He is a teetotaller-has been one for
| will keep the machinery of the body properly
! fabricated and no more. When he was made a
| Cardinal, some seven years ago, some of his
| flock sent round the hat to enable him to nav
the fees about 1900 without personally incon.
| veniencing himself. ~ should like to see your
! ennence riding In something better than that
shabby old brOlphafn. ~ remarked an influential